Sermon by Ernest & Rohan Prabhakar, April 28, 2013. Kingsway Rose Garden, San Jose, California. OUR PURPOSE To Enjoy Everything in God As He Glorifies Himself In and Through Us As Part of His Family On Mission Together With Him

1. Ernie & Rohan Prabhakar
Why Did Jesus Die?
Kingsway Rose Garden
April 28, 2013
Kingsway.us
San Jose, CA

2. New City Catechism
• Q24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the
Redeemer, to die?
• Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died
willingly in our place to deliver us from the
power and penalty of sin and bring us back to
God.
• By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone
redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness
of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.

3. A Brief Confession

4. St. Paul

5. Romans 5:6-10 (NIV)
You see, at just the right time, when we were
still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous
person, though for a good person someone
might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.

6. Since we have now been justified by his blood,
how much more shall we be saved from God’s
wrath through him!
For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were
reconciled to him through the death of his Son,
how much more, having been reconciled, shall
we be saved through his life!

7. Romans 6:3-10 (NIV)
Or don’t you know that all of us who were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into
his death? We were therefore buried with him
through baptism into death in order that, just as
Christ was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
For if we have been united with him in a death
like his, we will certainly also be united with
him in a resurrection like his.

8. For we know that our old self was crucified
with him so that the body ruled by sin might be
done away with, that we should no longer be
slaves to sin— because anyone who has died
has been set free from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
will also live with him. For we know that since
Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die
again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The death he died, he died to sin once for all;
but the life he lives, he lives to God.

9. St. Rohan

10. “To Kill Sin”

11. We Need To Know
• What it is
• Where it is
• How to kill it

12. What Is Sin

13. Missing the Mark
Not fulfilling our purpose

14. Our Purpose
• To Enjoy Everything in God
• As He Glorifies Himself
• In and Through Us
• As Part of His Family
• On Mission
• Together
• With Him

15. Isaiah 58:11-12 (NIV)
The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
You will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

16. Redemption
• “The Lord will guide you always”
• Head
• “You will be like a well-watered garden”
• Heart
• “Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins”
• Hand

17. Holiness
• Know What’s Right
• Head
• Want What’s Right
• Heart
• Do What’s Right
• Hand

18. Spreading the Kingdom
Promise Plan Problem
Head “Guide”
Divine
Direction
Mental
Confusion
Heart “Garden”
Personal
Flourishing
Intentional
Rebellion
Hand “Rebuild”
Societal
Transformation
Visceral
Compulsion

19. Holiness
Do
Want
Know
Heart
Hand
Head
Self

20. Sin
Compulsion
Rebellion
Confusion
Self
Heart
Hand
Head

21. Where Is Sin

22. Is Sin Real?

23. Define Reality
• “The Extra-Credit Question From Hell”
• Define the Universe.
• Give Three Examples.

24. The Objective Reality
behind our
Subjective Experience

25. Three Universes
Experience Reality Name
Head Think Logical Logos
Heart Feel Spiritual Pneuma
Hand Touch Physical Cosmos

26. One Reality
Cosmos
Pneuma
Logos
Heart
Hand
Head
GOD

27. Universal Corruption
Physical
Compulsion
Spiritual
Rebellion
Logical
Confusion
Heart
Hand
Head
SIN

28. How To Kill Sin

29. Comprehensive Redemption
Physical
Transformation
Spiritual
Flourishing
Logical
Direction
Heart
Hand
Head
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30. Only Christ’s
Physical Death
Could Kill All Sin

31. Head
• From Confusion to Direction
• “But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this: While we were still sinners, Christ died
for us.”
Romans 5:8

32. Heart
• From Rebellion to Flourishing
• “For if, while we were God’s enemies, we
were reconciled to him through the death of
his Son, how much more, having been
reconciled, shall we be saved through his
life!”
Romans 5:10

33. Hand
• From Compulsion to Transformation
• “For if we have been united with him in a death like
his, we will certainly also be united with him in a
resurrection like his.
• For we know that our old self was crucified with him
so that the body ruled by sin might be done away
with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
because anyone who has died has been set free from
sin.”
Romans 6:5-7

34. Response

36. The End
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